Cornet Bay and Hoypus Point

This is a lesser-visited part of Deception Pass park located to the east of the bridge on the Whidbey Island side. There are miles of forest trails and a good stretch of beach.

The old park road to Hoypus Point is closed to vehicles and narrows to not much more than a trail before it ends.

If you walk to the end, you eventually get to the old ferry launch that they used before the bridge was built in 1935. Some concrete and this old piling is all that remains of Berte Olson's ferry crossing. 

This belted kingfisher was using the piling for a lunch table. 

There were no end of birds hanging out on the beach yesterday. Herons are usually pretty shy so I had to get this shot through some tree limbs. 

Don't know what these geese were so interested in. They kept looking the same way the whole time I was there. 

I had the forest trails to the south of the ferry crossing all to myself. They were muddy in spots but still passable. Hiked for an hour without passing a soul.